Phillip Couto
Principal at Eckler Ltd. / Eckler ltée
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Couto is a Principal software engineer with 11 years of experience building highly available, multi-tenant web platforms and durable infrastructure for businesses from Stratford, Ontario. He combines hands-on backend engineering with operational ownership—designing and maintaining systems that prioritize reliability, security, and scalability. Phillip has a practical background in .NET and web development and has advanced to architecting production environments and platforms as a Principal at Eckler. An active contributor to open-source, he improved prepared-statement caching for the widely used GoCQL Cassandra driver, adding LRU caching and configurability to boost performance. He favors pragmatic, test-driven improvements that make systems easier to operate and scale in real-world enterprise contexts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computers Systems Analyst, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Computers Systems Analyst, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Sheridan College
Github Skills (11)
golang10
caching10
go10
driver10
cassandra10
cassandra-database10
database9
testing9
admin9
database-administration9
databases9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-gocql-driver
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Phillip primarily focused on enhancing the GoCQL driver for Apache Cassandra, specifically improving the prepared statement caching mechanism. Their work involved creating and integrating an LRU cache using the `groupcache/lru` package, optimizing code related to prepared statements, and refactoring test cases. The user also added the capability to configure the maximum prepared statement cache size. Further improvements included fixing various issues relating to prepared statement handling and batch API usage.
golangdrivernosqlcassandradatabase
phillipCouto/postmark
Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
golangapipostmarkgolang-packagepostmark-api
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